Folding table.



H. A. STONE.

FOLDING TABLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, 1913.

1 ,104,083, Patented July 21, 1914,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY A. STONE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 FOLDING- -STAND COMPANY, INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

FOLDING TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY A. STONE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, .county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Tables, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to folding tables.

My object is to provide a portable table, particularly adapted to support a typewriter, which will be of simple, light, strong, durable and inexpensive construction, having relatively bodily movable foldable or collapsible legs adapted to support on their upper ends the typewriter, and combined in an improved manner with braces, brace abutments, and releasable locking means, whereby the braces can be unlocked and the legs and braces readily collapsed and the braces will be locked and prevented from accidental bending out their joints when the table is in extended condition so that it will be rigid throughout. 1

The invention consists, in the combination with the foldable legs and upper and lower jointed braces connecting them, of coupled locking devices for securing the upper and lower braces, whereby the locking devices which connect a given leg with the braces may be all simultaneously operated.

In the accompanying drawingsz-Figure 1 is a perspective; Fig. 2, a similar view of one of the heads; and Fig. 3, a detail of the operative connection between a pair of latches and a push rod.

The legs 1 may be of any usual or preferred construction, but are preferably made in telescopic sections, and in the nature of a tripod, but no table top is provided, the legs being connected together by the braces consisting of the sections 2, 3,.jointed together at 4 and jointed or pivoted at 6 to the heads 5 on the legs 1. The braces are arranged in upper and lower sets, the lower'ones being longer than the upper ones so that the spread of the legs 1 is greater below than above. Preferably, the braces have their joints 4: adapted to break toward each other rather than in the same direction, although I do not limit myself to this exact arrangement, By breaking toward each other, the

extreme length of the table, when collapsed, 1s less than if the joints break in the same direction.

The heads 5 each have two channeled or rabbeted parts 7 providing horizontally arranged ledges or flanges 8 to constitute abutments for the braces in the region of joints 6 when the table is in extended condition. These abutments prevent the braces from moving away from each other and assists in relieving them of strain, and by reason of the longer joint thus provided between the. braces and the legs, greater rigidity of the entire table is obtained than if the joints 6 took up the entire strain.

Mounted on each head 5 are two slidable latches 9 having beveled faces 10, against which the edges of the braces strike when the legs are drawn apart to bring the table to extended condition, the latches being thus pressed back until the braces strike the ledges or flanges 8, whereupon the latches snap out across the opposite edges of the braces, thus locking the braces against the ledges and preventing accidental collapsing of the table.

Slidably mounted on the upper and lower heads 5 of each leg are releasing rods 11 which have connections 12 and 13 with the respective latches on each head 5 and are actuated by the springs 14, thus keeping the rods normally elevated and the latches normally extended. There being provided but one rod for each leg, all four latches carried by that leg are simultaneously released when the rod is moved, thus permitting the legs to be collapsed.

In collapsing the legs, they move bodily toward each other and the jointed braces 2, 3 break away from the abutments. In extending the table to condition it for use, the legs 1 are grasped and pulled apart, whereupon the braces snap past the latches and against the abutments and the latches then look the braces. Two of the legs are provided at their upper ends with cups or suitable devices 15 to engage the rear legs of a typewriter and the remaining leg carries a clamp 16 to engage the front part of the typewriter frame.

Having thus described'my invention, what Patented July 21, 1914.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A folding table having, in combination, bodily movable foldable independent legs,

upper and lower jointed braces pivoted to v and connecting the legs whereby the legs may all fold together, abutments on the legs with which the braces engage when the table is in extended condition, latches for locking 10 the braces against the abutments when the table is in extended condition, and operating means common to the latches for the lower braces and those for the upper braces for each leg.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my 15 Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C. 

